Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday December 23rd 2023, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Leather accessory : CHAPS
6 Sandbox game items? : PAILS
11 Rangers home, familiarly : MSG
14 Cocoon fillers : PUPAE
15 Actress MacDowell : ANDIE
16 Took a course? : ATE
17 Ancient Greek market : AGORA
18 Fed. security : T-NOTE
19 MSNBC’s “Inside With __ Psaki” : JEN
20 James Webb, for one : SPACE TELESCOPE
23 Really feel the heat : BAKE
24 Introduces an MGM film? : ROARS
25 Hosted : HAD OVER
28 Arrests : HAULS IN
30 __ Polytechnique : ECOLE
31 “Severance” actor : SCOTT
33 Source of local produce, for short : CSA
34 __ regia: gold-dissolving substance : AQUA
35 Puffy deep-fried bread : POORI
36 Muscles worked in pull-ups and pull-downs : LATS
37 Spice blend : RUB
38 “Black Skin, White Masks” writer Frantz : FANON
39 __ mignon : FILET
40 Inclined : TILTING
42 Spelling practice? : SORCERY
44 Receiving line? : HEIRS
45 Layered snack : OREO
46 Silent nemesis in “Peanuts” : KITE-EATING TREE
51 Is for many : ARE
52 Smoothie option : GUAVA
53 Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novels : SILVA
55 Luthor in the Legion of Doom : LEX
56 Row of pawns, e.g. : OCTET
57 Needed Advil, say : ACHED
58 Superlative suffix : -EST
59 One-named rapper in the hip-hop collective Doomtree : DESSA
60 “The Constant Gardener” Oscar winner : WEISZ
DOWN
1 Pro concerned with returns : CPA
2 Brings it in, in a way : HUGS
3 Each : A POP
4 y=2x² plot, e.g. : PARABOLA
5 Coastal formation : SEA CAVE
6 Gilbert and Sullivan staple : PATTER SONG
7 Rice, for one : ANNE
8 K-pop star, say : IDOL
9 Book club? : LITERATI
10 Shows the door : SEES OUT
11 Pitches delivered in sequence? : MAJOR SCALE
12 Member of a blended family : STEPSISTER
13 Tiny inheritance? : GENE
21 __ out : EKE
22 Berkeley, familiarly : CAL
25 “Barracuda” band : HEART
26 Purchases a company to obtain talented employees : ACQUI-HIRES
27 Follow up too soon, perhaps : DOUBLE TEXT
28 Beethoven composition for brass virtuoso Giovanni Punto : HORN SONATA
29 Repugnant : NASTY
32 Imitate a dove : COO
35 Many a reduction : PAN SAUCE
36 Good & Plenty flavor : LICORICE
38 Vulcan or Agni : FIRE GOD
39 Tool for intricate cutting : FRETSAW
41 Draw : TIE
43 Part of some email addresses : ORG
46 Vegetable baked for chips : KALE
47 Parts of a sleeve : TATS
48 Lithographer James Merritt : IVES
49 Precollege yrs. : ELHI
50 The before times? : EVES
54 Wood shaper : ADZ
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